Wayne County v. Plymouth Charter Township

Defendant Plymouth Charter Township appeals as of right from the judgment entered in favor of plaintiff Wayne County following a circuit court bench trial.1 The township challenges a pretrial order granting the county’s motion for partial summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10).2 We affirm.

This case arises from the township’s refusal to pay $68,631.50 in per diem fees the county charged the township for housing and maintaining township ordinance violators in the county jail between August 1988 and November 1996. The township refused to pay the fees on the basis that the payment of…